TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey 2020 sales for principal vegetables totaled $224 million, from over 32 thousand acres according to Bruce Eklund, state statistician of the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New Jersey Field Office.
Sales increases over 2019 came from cabbage, eggplant, herbs, kale, bell peppers, pumpkins, winter squash, and sweet corn. Increases in acreage came from cabbage, eggplant, escarole & endive, herbs, kale, bell peppers, winter squash, and sweet corn.
Bell peppers and tomatoes led in value of production, accounting for 46% of the total. Overall, prices received were a little higher than 2019. These vegetable estimates represent crops grown in the open, not those grown under glass or other protection. For information on vegetables grown under protection, please see the Census of Horticulture.
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–USDA, NASS